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Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 01, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Benjamin T. H. Cox, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Antoine R. Raux, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/35 (2019.12); G06F 9/48 (2005.12); G06F 18/2113 (2022.12); G06V 30/262 (2021.12); G10L 15/18 (2012.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/35 (2019.12); G06F 9/4881 (2012.12); G06F 18/2113 (2022.12); G06V 30/274 (2021.12); G10L 15/1815 (2012.12);
Abstract

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving an utterance including a user request, determining a natural language representation of the user request, determining a first software process associated with the natural language representation, determining whether the natural language representation can be executed by a task flow of the first software process, and in accordance with a determination that the natural language representation cannot be executed by the task flow of the first software process: determining a set of transformation instructions, determining a revised natural language representation using the set of transformation instructions, and providing the revised natural language representation to a second software process.


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